[6] Klein had a long and successful career as a Memphis radio DJ and TV personality, hitting the airwaves in 1957[6] and hosted Talent Party on WHBQ-TV from 1964 to 1973.
The first, Elvis Presley: A Family Album, was published in 2007, by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
The second, Elvis: My Best Man: Radio Days, Rock 'n' Roll Nights, was co-written with Chuck Crisafulli and published in 2011, by Three Rivers Press.
Klein, the former program director for WHBQ radio Memphis, went to trial after being indicted on four counts of conspiring with a former postal employee to steal Arbitron diaries.
Klein was acquitted of three mail fraud charges, but found guilty on one count of conspiracy and sentenced to 60 days in federal prison.
[citation needed] Though Klein had never been a strictly observant Jew, he turned to his faith following the death of his close friend Elvis, stating in a later interview with the Jewish Chronicle, "I had never been a particularly Orthodox Jew, but after Elvis died, I followed the Jewish tradition of yahrzeit – a year of mourning marked with daily morning and evening prayers.
[5] The Twitter account of Priscilla Presley stated Klein had been in hospice care prior to his death.